In the Company of Others Perspectives on Community, Family, and Culture

by Snow, Nancy E.; Friedman, Marilyn; Held, Virginia; Iannone, A Pablo; Mason, Andrew; Ruddick, Sara; Sommers, Christina Hoff; Tong, Rosemarie; Warren, Karen J.; Wong, David B.

• ISBN13: 9780847681457
• ISBN10: 0847681459
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Political and public debate recently has centered on issues of community, family and culture. What are the boundaries of community, and why is community important? What constitutes a family, and is it the fundamental unit of a stable society? What difference does feminism make in our lives and in society? How do racial and cultural minorities affect culture as a whole? In the Company of Others brings together new and previously published essays by nine distinguished philosophers, who argue these questions from a variety of perspectives. Presenting traditional and non-traditional approaches, their essays challenge and refine recent thinking on issues of contemporary social and political importance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Two Concepts of Community	p. 3
Community, Diversity, and Confucianism	p. 17
Philosophers against the Family	p. 41
Injustice in Families: Assault and Domination	p. 65
On Care and Justice within the Family	p. 91
Shaping Feminist Culture	p. 105
Of Mothers and Families, Men and Sex: The Truth about Feminism	p. 131
Procreative Liberty: Beyond Liberal, Radical, and Cultural Feminist Assessments	p. 153
Longing for Home: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective	p. 173
Cross-Cultural Ecologies: The Expatriate Experience, the Multiculturalism Issue, and Philosophy	p. 191
Selected Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 217
About the Contributors	p. 225
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